Thunderbird Club

[TBird1958]

Goats, these two were visitors at my train buddy's place the other day.

 

[redstrand]

Goats, these two were visitors at my train buddy's place the other day.

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DAAAAAAAAAAAAAYUM

 

[TBird1958]

DAAAAAAAAAAAAAYUM

This one is in the garage, it won a Concourse Gold medal at the national level, totally rebuilt to showroom stock - amazingly beautiful, especially the paint.

The blue one in the background is the current project, it was a POS when he bought it, a tree had fallen onto it as it was rusting in an open field.

 

[redstrand]

This one is in the garage, it won a Concourse Gold medal at the national level, totally rebuilt to showroom stock - amazingly beautiful, especially the paint.

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The blue one in the background is the current project, it was a POS when he bought it, a tree had fallen onto it as it was rusting in an open field.

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Why is my eye twitching?

 

[dagrev]

North Wilkesboro, by any chance? Or Boone? That's where my mother is from.

Vandeveer was the family name, and they were from Rowan County in 1773. Later was granted land in Surry County in 1784, which was a little south between Winston-Salem and Charlotte. One member moved to Ky in 1799. I have no knowledge of that part of family that stayed in North Carolina.

 

[dagrev]

I do both shielding and grounding leading to the same result - quiet operation. Sometimes it's easy and quick/straight forward, but recently it was a back & forth on a vintage 3 single-coil pu Burns hum until I got it quiet. Probably because of archaic post WWII British electronics.

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Interesting!

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

TT!

 

[dagrev]

This one is in the garage, it won a Concourse Gold medal at the national level, totally rebuilt to showroom stock - amazingly beautiful, especially the paint.

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The blue one in the background is the current project, it was a POS when he bought it, a tree had fallen onto it as it was rusting in an open field.

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WOW! You clearly need to take way more pictures next time all of you get together!

 

[dagrev]

Why is my eye twitching?

I feel like Chris Matthews hearing Obama talk--I have a tingle going up and down my leg. And I'm not even a Pontiac person.

 

[redstrand]

I feel like Chris Matthews hearing Obama talk--I have a tingle going up and down my leg. And I'm not even a Pontiac person.

Mine's twitching like Chief Insp. Charles Dreyfus' in the Pink Panther movie

 

[Gaolee]

Vandeveer was the family name, and they were from Rowan County in 1773. Later was granted land in Surry County in 1784, which was a little south between Winston-Salem and Charlotte. One member moved to Ky in 1799. I have no knowledge of that part of family that stayed in North Carolina.

Gotcha. The Justices came over in about 1630 or so. They had a "plantation" but ran out of money pretty fast and disappeared into Tennessee. I don't know much about the other side, but they were in Wilkes County for a long time. My grandfather was gassed in WWI and came back shell shocked. After he put himself back together again, he married my grandmother and ran a furniture factory in North Wilkesboro. That's where my mother and uncle grew up. The furniture factory burned in the 1950s, and he died before I was born, so there's plenty of missing information. That's not necessarily a bad thing, considering the likelihood (near certainty) of some weirdness buried in there somewhere.

 

[GonePlaid]

Gotcha. The Justices came over in about 1630 or so. They had a "plantation" but ran out of money pretty fast and disappeared into Tennessee. I don't know much about the other side, but they were in Wilkes County for a long time. My grandfather was gassed in WWI and came back shell shocked. After he put himself back together again, he married my grandmother and ran a furniture factory in North Wilkesboro. That's where my mother and uncle grew up. The furniture factory burned in the 1950s, and he died before I was born, so there's plenty of missing information. That's not necessarily a bad thing, considering the likelihood (near certainty) of some weirdness buried in there somewhere.

You may be related to yerself.

 

[Gaolee]

You may be related to yerself.

Yep. Pretty scary.

 

[GonePlaid]

One for @Chucky Stiletti and @KaraQ :

 

[PillO]

Goats, these two were visitors at my train buddy's place the other day.

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Crazy Jim has a crazy nice car!

This one is in the garage, it won a Concourse Gold medal at the national level, totally rebuilt to showroom stock - amazingly beautiful, especially the paint.

That colour would be great on a Thunderbird (bass).

Very similar to the colour of my old (no longer mine) Thunderbird (car)

 

[GonePlaid]

Crazy Jim has a crazy nice car!


That colour would be great on a Thunderbird (bass).

Very similar to the colour of my old (no longer mine) Thunderbird (car)
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Similar to the 'shade' of my old(no longer mine) Freightliner. Ignore ratty looking company wagon.

 

[PillO]

One for @Chucky Stiletti and @KaraQ :

Maybe she has high pain tolerance? But why use a soldering iron on something that was wave soldered?

Not just a model, but the photographer didn't understand the props.

 

[GonePlaid]

TT: 'Bird in the bush, not in the hand.

 

[BklynKen]

Arrived today. 2xLP, 45 rpm. Sounds fantastic.

 

[TBird1958]

Seeing T.Rex = Happy memories! At the Paramont in downtown Seattle.